Rejecting, Your Broken Promises
Chapter 69

Luna Meghan’s POV

Golden Moon Pack

Those assholes. I tried to do it the nice way. I cannot believe that my plan didn’t work. I had told Gerald that I was just going to see if I could visit with Sloan. I know he didn’t really believe me, but he also wasn’t going to believe that I was now involving us in a war with a very strong pack that was almost double our size. He is going to be furious, but what could I do? I needed to make her pay for my losing my parents like I did. She was a witch, and at the root of the problem, witches caused this whole incident. He has always let me do whatever I want and doesn’t put up a lot of resistance, but I am physically hurt now, and it is making me even madder. How in the hell did my plan not work out? They didn’t have but a few seconds to realize what I was going to do. There was literally no way for them to be able to prepare for it.

I know why it failed now, they had witches there to help them. I wish I had known that. I would have had my men start shooting right off the f*****g bat. Goddess, I hate freaking witches. I had no idea that they even had witches there, or even dealt with them. I remember a while back the former Luna, Aria, had friends that were witches, but none that stayed at the packhouse. I hit the steering wheel with my right hand in my frustration. It pisses me off even more that my plan failed because of that warlock. I g***n in pain as my left arm has been shot when I was trying to get away, and it burns pretty bad right now. I can’t stop now though to get it looked at, I have to get back to Golden Moon for any treatment, and I can’t take the chance on local authorities getting involved with my gunshot wound and a report being filed. One of the warriors in the back of the SUV had been killed, but I am not stopping until I get to safety in front of our pack house. I barely slow down for our gate as I approached, scared that I have their men on my tail. I am scared to death that someone is behind me right now, just waiting to kill me. I saw Gabi’s face, she is planning on it, I just need to outsmart them at their own game. The guards watch us drive past the gate at a high rate of speed, before closing the gate. I had Brandi call ahead of us to notify the pack, and tell them that we were coming in quick, and we had someone right behind us. I don’t see anyone, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t hot on our trail right now. I see my mate on the steps walking down to meet us, and the pack doctor is there as well. I had Brandi contact the doctor right after the guards at the gate. I didn’t call my mate, I was going to get in touch with him when we got back to Golden Moon.

He is clearly pissed, and I bet I can already figure out why, but I took the shot that I had to take. I just didn’t succeed, this time. I couldn’t just let Sloan ride off into the sunset to have a wonderful, happy life. She doesn’t deserve it, and I cannot allow that to happen. Gerald can keep his stupid comments to himself, I don’t even want to f*****g hear it. I am already making plans for what I need to do next. I am a smart woman, and I can figure out a way out of this on my own. I don’t need his help, I haven’t since my parents died. I had told him after they died that it was all his family’s fault, clearly the blame laid on his shoulders. It was his dad’s greed at wanting what he shouldn’t have, which resulted in a witch becoming Gerald’s mother. I had heard several stories from older she-wolves in the pack telling me how they had wanted to be his chosen. Still angry that he insisted on them waiting for their own mates and appreciating all that a mate had to offer. But he didn’t want any of them, once he scented his mate, that was all he wanted by his side. His hunger to have Sera eclipsed everything, and only she could be his mate and Luna. He wouldn’t be reasoned with, I had been told, and that just drove up my anger at his callous disregard for anyone but himself.

“Meghan, what have you done? If I hadn’t heard it from Rob himself, I would not have believed it. How could you put all of our pack members lives at risk for your erroneous and misplaced vendetta against Sloan? She has never done anything wrong to you for her to be receiving the abuse you dole out to her. I have waited for her to reach out to me when she had enough, but I see you silenced her then, as well. Locking her in her room, keeping us apart, how could you keep hurting her like you have all these years, and feel no remorse at all for it?” My mate asks me, and I cannot believe how he is talking to me. He has never corrected me, or my actions before. He has a lot of never even saying those words as his family is the direct reason for the loss in my family.

“I did what needed to be done, Gerald. That family took her from me, she was never supposed to leave Golden Moon. She was to die here, at my hand, when I got done with showing her that she is nothing at all to me. Plus, what happened wasn’t even that bad, Rob need to stop listening to rumors. You probably need to worry less about me, and more about getting men on patrols on the borders to prevent anyone from breaching our land” I told him in a mocking tone, trying to downplay what happened.

“You have condemned us all, Meghan. I will call the werewolf council to see what can be done to try to stop this, but I am sure that they will approve war for B***d Rose. Hundreds of innocent wolves could die from this pack, all for your selfish reasons. I just want to remind you that your opinion is not even correct, at all, and deep down I know that you already know it. But since you can’t kill people who are already dead, you fixated on our innocent daughter. I won’t allow you to tear this pack apart Meghan. I won’t allow innocent lives to be lost because you are unstable and unreasonable. I can’t, I won’t support you in this. I want you to realize that you doomed others to be placed in the same spot that you were in. With losing their parent, or parents, to a battle that never needed to be started in the first place. All of this is done by you, a misled and misguided fool that is so hurt inside, that she is willing to allow many innocent people to suffer on a whim” my mate tells me.

I laugh at him. He is the one who is crazed. He has never supported me, not in this. He has tried to reason with and stop me at every turn. He can’t see why at all, but I know that the repayment for my vengeance to begin, has to start with killing Sloan, and then I will kill that man at B***d Rose. I will call my cousin at his pack and see if he will help us out with this. I am positive that after I kill Sloan, and their mate bond is severed, then Brandi might be Dawson’s second chance mate. Even if she isn’t, they should thank me for getting that bad omen out of the pack. They have no idea how much bad luck she brings to a pack. I remember the day I lost my dad in the battle, it was heartbreaking, and I thought I would never recover from it. Until I had to watch my mother, refusing to eat, bathe, or brush her hair. She just literally withered away right there in front of my eyes, and I was helpless to stop it. I had her taken to the hospital and out on an IV to help slow the deterioration down. So, she could see that me, and my babies, were worth her continuing to fight through her pain. But she didn’t want to be here anymore. I had been hurting all morning with Sloan moving around a lot inside me, and my back was already hurting pretty bad. It was like Sloan knew what was going to happen that day and had been excited about it. Just for that alone, she should be killed.

I followed the doctor to the pack hospital, and he takes care of my arm. The bullet was still lodged in there, and my wolf had been trying to heal me. The tissues were already trying to heal around it, prevent from healing only by the bullet still lodged in my arm. The doctor did an x-ray to see where it lay and did manage to go in and pull it out in one piece. He checked for fragments, but the bullet was still in one piece. So, he cleaned the wound out and then patched me up. I took that time to figure out what I needed to do next. I just need to let Brandi reach out, she had friends there in the B***d Rose pack. I remember them coming to stay here occasionally for Brandi’s birthday parties when she was younger. I will check with her to see if they can help me get what I need done. I already have my plan formed in my head, I just need to get the people together to put it into action.

“Brandi, don’t you still have friends in the B***d Rose pack? Can you reach out to them to see if they can do me a favor? Make sure it is someone who can keep their mouth shut and isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty. If you don’t think they would be willing to give Sloan some wolfsbane and belladonna, don’t even try to contact them. I want to make sure her death is painful and kills both her wolf and the witch side of her. Do NOT say anything to anyone who can’t hold their tongue, Brandi. We are already at war with them, and I will need to get this done very secretly. We have to be able to poison Sloan, as the one chance we had was not successful. I will provide the poison to them, I just want a photo, or video evidence, that Sloan is dead. I will then be satisfied. Then you can take over as Luna, in her place, Brandi. You may have to lie to her to get her to do it but let her think that she could become Luna. I still think that the Moon Goddess will reward you for helping your mom, by giving Dawson to you” I tell her as I rub her soft hair down smoothly. My daughter Brandi is indeed beautiful, just like me, and she will make an excellent Luna.

“I will call her mom and see if she will be willing to help us. I think you are right, I bet the Goddess will give me Dawson as a second chance mate, I already love him so much, plus, I am her sister, I can see where the Goddess would bless me with Dawson” Brandi said and quickly goes to make the call on her cell phone. We are in Brandi’s room with the door locked, as I don’t want my husband to enter and see what I am planning. I am sure he’ll have an issue with it too, and try to stop me, but I just cannot allow Sloan to be happy like that, she is undeserving.

Brandi paces around the room while she waits for the girl to answer the phone. I wait anxiously for the phone to be answered as well, and after about 5 rings we both hear, “Hello?” on the phone.

“Hey, Anna, it’s Brandi. It’s been a minute, but I want to talk to you really quick about something” Brandi said to Anna.

“Um, OK. But be quick about it. We all just got a mind link that we are all now at war with Golden Moon, and I don’t think that they will be OK with me talking to you, even if we are friends” Anna tells her in a low voice, and we both know that she is trying to be quiet about talking to us.

“I was just wondering if you would be able to help us, uh, umm, get rid of Sloan?” Brandi said to Anna. There is dead silence in the air, after a minute I motion for Brandi to look at her cell phone to look and make sure that the call is still connected. It is, so we wait.

Finally, we hear Anna say, “What exactly would I have to do, to help you? Can I do it without getting caught? I would actually really like to get rid of her, I was made to look like a fool last night at the town hall meeting. She is a disgusting half-breed, who doesn’t deserve to have Dawson.”

I see Brandi bowing up to yell at Anna for assuming to be the one getting Dawson and I coo into the phone, “Yes, Anna, no one will know about it. I think you deserve him more than Sloan does too” as I shake my head at Brandi to keep her mouth shut.

“No one can know that I was involved in this. At the meeting last night, Dawson made it clear that anyone who hurt Sloan was going to be taken care of, and his meaning was very clear. I don’t want to die a horrible death, so what were you thinking about doing? How can I keep from being caught doing it” Anna asks, and I smile as I know that she will be the person we need on the inside. I feel better just knowing that I can still get this done.

“We will get it all done, here at Golden Moon, and all you will have to do is get it into her drink. I will get it done today and send it to the mall with Brandi. I am sending her to my cousin’s pack, and she will be leaving within the hour before they get their approval and arrive here. We need to act fast girls, and I am depending on you both. Anna, you can meet Brandi at the mall to get the two vials. I will have them done in 20 minutes. Brandi, get packed, you need to be out of here in 30 minutes” I tell them both, and then hurry to where I have my herbs. I crush them in my pestle and mortar and then add water and sugar to cover the bitter taste. She doesn’t need to use but a dropper full of each, and both bottles that I m sending, are half full. I write down the instructions on a sheet of paper and hurry to Brandi’s room again.

I call my cousin Alan Long, as he is the Beta of a nearby pack to see if he can allow Brandi to stay there for a little while, and he said that he had to get permission. He calls me back 5 minutes later, and he is mad, as he just found out from his Alpha that we had started a war with B***d Rose. He found out when he was speaking to his Alpha. “Meghan, have you lost your mind? No wonder you want her out of there. You have to have a death wish to have started a war with them. No, she cannot come here, Alpha Tate wants nothing to do with protecting any of your family. She will have to go somewhere else” before he hangs up on me, dropping the call. Fine, I don’t need him to help us anyway. I grab the emergency credit card from the safe and bring that to Brandi too. She can just stay in a hotel for the next week, and then we will revisit this. I give her $500 for food and drinks and take her to her car.

“Be safe, and text me when you get to your room, Brandi. You also need to tell Anna to delete any messages between you. Tell her it is for her own protection so there won’t be any proof in her phone of collusion. I love you my daughter” I k**s her and send her off. I am glad we got this done so quickly. I know that soon we will be surrounded, but I will take my punishment as long as I know that Sloan will get her punishment first.